Coin assorter



A. GODEFROID COIN ASSORTER Nov. 4, 1930.

Filed Feb. 20, 1929 I a dcj v aiaz MNEN-Fa Patented Nov. 4, 1930 PATENT OFFICE ARMANI) GODEFROID, OF BERLIN, GERMANY COIN ASSOBTER Application filed. February 20, 1929, Serial No.

My invention relates to coin assorters having tilting tables and it is an object of my invention to facilitate the separation of unusual coins in coin assorters of this type.

To this end I provide on the table a deflector by which a certain percentage of the area of the table is partitioned for the reception of such unusual coins.

Unusual coins, as foreign money or the like, must not get into the same coin compartments as normal coins but must be collected separately. In a table having my deflector normal coins are directed by the deflector toward the normal coin compartment of the drawer when the table is tilted but unusual coins are placed on the area which the deflector is partitioning by hand and discharged into a separate coin compartment by tilting the table.

In the accompanying drawing a coin assorter to which my invention is applied is illustrated diagrammatically by way of example,

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective illustration of a coin assorter,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tilting table,

- drawn to a larger scale and showing that end posite side.

of the table on which the deflector is secured,

Fig. 3 is a section on the line AB in Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawing, 1 is the cabinet of the coin assorter, 2 is its tilting table, 3 is an inspection window showing the coins while on the usual conveyer, not shown, 5 is the drawer, 4 is its compartment for normal, and 4* is its compartment for unusual coins. The clerk is stationed on the drawer side of the coin assorter, thebuyer on the op- 6 is an area at the left end of the table 2 as viewed from the clerk, and 7 is a deflector by which the area 6 is partitioned. The deflector is shown as an angular elevation but may obviously be curved or of any other suitable shape, as required or desired. It extends :from the left-hand edge of the table 2 toward its rear edge and ends at such a distance from the edge that a coin indicated by the smallest light circle in Fig. 2 may be moved past its rear end and toward the separate compartment 4 of the drawer 5, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2.

341,423, and in- Germany February 24, 1928.

Assume that the larger circles in Fig. 2 represent the normal currency of the country, these Will be deflected by the outer face of the deflector 7 when the table is tilted, as indi cated by the curved arrow in Fig. 2, and delivered to the normal compartment & together with those coins that are not within reach of the deflector.

If a coin is placed on the table 2 which must be kept separate from'the other coins to avoid confusion or because the sorting appliance of the coin assorter would not handle it, it is picked out by the clerk and moved to the area 6 behind the deflector so that upon the table 2 being tilted itdrops into the separate compartment 4. Foreign or any other unusual coins will thus be kept separate'from the normal coins and there will be no trouble when changing money. i

It will be understood that all coins which are on the table 2 are kept away from the separate compartment P by the deflector 7 unless handled by the clerk.

I claim:

A coin assorter comprising atilting table, a drawer having a separate compartment, and a deflector in line with said compartment and arranged so as to extend from one side of said table to a point short of the longitudinal edge of the table which faces the position assumed by the clerk so as to leave a space suflicient to permit the passage of small size coins by the deflector and to a point on the table opposite the separate compartment.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ARMAND GODEFROID. 

